"There's something about awards ceremonies that make you nervous. Yeah, you want to win. But you're also just happy to be there," Chazelle adds in the video chat below.

"So I think with this [Oscar] stuff, I'm just so thankful that the movie is getting this kind of attention at all. It was a movie that was hard to convince people that anyone in the world would want to see it. A movie about a jazz drummer? It seems like a really small, inaccessible world. I was happy to get into Sundance, let alone the stuff that's followed."